Confuseddotcom

[MikeTyphoon770]

Hi everyone, good afternoon.
My name is Michael a newly diagnosed TP2 diabetic. I was told I was diabetic last week while in hospital recovering from a heart attack. The hospital staff have told me nothing about it but have put me on a tablet called Empaglifozin 10mg. I am now home again trying to make sense of it all. So many questions and don’t know where to begin with it all. I don’t understand the terminology associated with blood tests and sugar levels nor do I know what I can and can’t eat. Never been a junk food addict I’m more a meat and potatoe man. I’ve joined this group in the hope that I can find out what I need to know to help me fight this. I also have Leukaemia and I’m very worried what the future holds for me now. Thank you for allowing me to join the group. I hope you are all well. Thank you.

 

[Drummer]

Hi everyone, good afternoon.
My name is Michael a newly diagnosed TP2 diabetic. I was told I was diabetic last week while in hospital recovering from a heart attack. The hospital staff have told me nothing about it but have put me on a tablet called Empaglifozin 10mg. I am now home again trying to make sense of it all. So many questions and don’t know where to begin with it all. I don’t understand the terminology associated with blood tests and sugar levels nor do I know what I can and can’t eat. Never been a junk food addict I’m more a meat and potatoe man. I’ve joined this group in the hope that I can find out what I need to know to help me fight this. I also have Leukaemia and I’m very worried what the future holds for me now. Thank you for allowing me to join the group. I hope you are all well. Thank you.

Hopefully you'll be put on lists and get the usual attention for Type 2s.
The tablet you are taking will make your urine sweet as a way to get rid of excess glucose.
Foods such as potatoes, bread, breakfast cereals, fruits - anything containing sugar or starch all end up as sugars in the bloodstream and a diabetic can't deal with them in the usual way.
It goes against most advice these days, but for my ordinary typ2, for which I don't require tablets, I eat meat, fish, full fat dairy, eggs - so my main source of nutrition is protein and the fat which comes with it.
I do eat low carb fruit such as berries, and salad stuff and vegetables, mushrooms too, but you should really get advice - maybe contact your GP surgery - about how to eat when taking the tablets, as that throws an extra consideration into the mix on top of the heart attack etc..
You certainly have a lot to deal with, but an ordinary type 2 can often settle to eating a suitable diet and really not be much bothered by it at all.

 

[saffron15]

@MikeTyphoon770 welcome to the forum. You must be feeling stressed having had a heart attack. The good news is many of the thing you will be encouraged to do for your heart health will be good for the diabetes - move more, cut back on saturated fat and carbs. I don't know the specific advice re your cardiac problems and cancer. I like all food but having been told my cholesterol had crept up following a routine blood test for my high blood pressure I asked to be tested for diabetes. I had already decided to eat more fish and more poultry which are very low in carbs and saturated fat. Others on here eat more meat. There is a freshwell site that has good advice and useful graphics. I am eating low car and am losing a kilo a week which is great.

I was put on metformin four weeks ago reaching four tablets a day and my blood sugar is reducing. This Saturday I took my first tablet of dapaglifozin an SGLT2 and my metformin dose has reduced as I am told the new drug has a similar function to metformin. However additionally it protects your kidneys and improves the pumping strength of your heart. I'm not aware I have heart problems at the moment but I do have high blood pressure. Check the NHS site or this site for the drug you are on I have assumed it is similar to mine. If so it is good for heart health and diabetes. I take mine in the morning with water and have told to be hydrated.

It gets the kidneys to release sugar into your urine. I was told I would pee a pint. I am peeing less than I did when I thought I had diabetes symptoms and take it about 7.30 and do pee during the day but first day didn't pee for 4 hours ( I had to take a relative to the GP at 10 on the Monday and didn't want a stop the car moment)

It is important not to try the excessively low carb keto diet with the drug but low carb is OK.

I am being drip fed medicine so side effects can be picked up. I expect next Monday to be put on a statin. So far I am feeling healthier than I did previously I am losing weight and sleeping better.

I was bewildered when first diagnosed. You can phone the diabetes people who run the site which I did before I joined the forum and ask anything here.

I am sure the medical team who will look after your heart health will be aware of your diabetes. I don't know if you have had steroids in relation to either of your two health problems but they can result in diabetes. I have no medical training so do not know if or when they are stopped the blood sugar reduces.

Good luck